Absolum: Tips for the Predefined Ordeals?

What you need to know

Pre‑defined ordeals can be made much easier by choosing the right hero, flask, and auxiliary items. Some combinations let you generate stars or lifesteal constantly, which reduces the need to dodge every enemy. You can also use the built‑in assist options or the Save & Quit trick to reset a room without losing progress.

Step by step

1. Pick a hero that scales with the ordeal’s mechanic – Brome works exceptionally well in the Legion ordeal when paired with the Mynasthar flask because the flask lets you create stars quickly and spam your ultimate.
2. Add a lifesteal‑oriented item for the Lifesteal ordeal – Equip Cornucopia or the Chef’s Ladle. These items cause allies to gain life from your attacks, turning a normally fragile run into a survivable one.
3. Activate assist options – In the ordeal menu enable any assist features that lower enemy damage or increase your survivability. This gives you a baseline safety net before you rely on skill.
4. Use Save & Quit as a safety net – If you take heavy damage or die, open the pause menu and choose Save & Quit. Reloading returns you to the start of the current room with the same state, letting you practice the segment repeatedly.
5. Treat Lifestealer and Starving ordeals as speedruns – Their 2 HP/s decay does not kill you outright; you’ll drop to near‑zero health but survive. Focus on finishing the room quickly rather than trying to stay at full health.

Tips

• Brome + Mynasthar: The combination lets you generate stars almost automatically, making the Legion ordeal far less overwhelming.
• Cornucopia / Chef Ladle: When playing the Lifesteal ordeal, these items give you continuous life leech, so allies stay alive even when you’re low on HP.
• Assist options: Turn on any available assists to soften enemy aggression; they are especially helpful in the Guardian ordeal where enemies swarm quickly.
• Save & Quit practice: Use this to rehearse tricky sections without penalty; you keep all upgrades and items, only the room resets.
• Don’t rely on HP in Lifestealer/Starving: Since the decay won’t kill you, prioritize fast movement and finishing the objective rather than healing.
• Avoid pure “combo” deaths: In Legion, focus on spacing your ultimate spams to keep enemy numbers manageable; the star generation from the flask gives you a buffer.

These workarounds let you survive and complete the predefined ordeals without needing a permanent fix.